Stablecoin payments infrastructure provider TransFi has raised $19.2 million, including $14.2 million in Series A equity and a $5 million committed liquidity facility. The company plans to use the capital to expand its stablecoin-based cross-border payments platform across Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa while deepening regulatory licensing and enterprise merchant onboarding.

Tally, a governance platform serving over 500 DAOs such as Uniswap, Ethereum Name Service and Arbitrum, has announced it will close after operating for more than five years. The decision follows new joint guidance from the SEC and CFTC stating that most cryptocurrencies are not securities, which has eased legal pressures and reduced demand for DAO governance structures in the US.

Meta Platforms will discontinue virtual reality access to its Horizon Worlds metaverse on June 15, 2026, shifting the service to a mobile-only format. The VR-focused world, launched in late 2021 as part of Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse strategy, has struggled to deliver profits while Reality Labs has accumulated nearly $80 billion in losses since 2020.

On March 1, crypto e-commerce firm Bitrefill reported a cyberattack involving an employee's compromised laptop, hot wallet theft and access to 18,500 purchase records. The firm linked the tactics to North Korean groups Lazarus and possibly BlueNoroff, and said it will cover the undisclosed losses using its operational capital. Bitrefill added that core services and sales volumes have largely returned to normal after introducing stronger security controls.

The U.S. Secret Service, the UK's National Crime Agency and Canadian law enforcement have launched Operation Atlantic to counter crypto scams such as approval phishing and pig butchering. The cross-border initiative works with exchanges and VASPs to analyze live blockchain data and contact at-risk wallet owners before funds are drained. Despite scammers receiving tens of billions of dollars in illicit crypto, recent analysis indicates that legal crypto activity is growing faster than criminal use.

Ironlight Group has raised $21 million from backers including former TD Bank CEO Greg Braca, the Sei Development Foundation, and Laidlaw Private Equity to expand its Ironlight Markets ATS platform for regulated tokenized securities. Tokenized stocks have grown 10% in the past 30 days to a $1.05 billion market cap, with Ethereum, Solana, and BNB Chain processing hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements.

Moody’s Ratings has introduced its Token Integration Engine to distribute credit analysis on the Canton Network, enabling permissioned access to its traditional ratings data within blockchain-based financial workflows. The system is aimed at institutional finance, keeps issuer-controlled permissions under Moody’s governance framework, and is initially live on Canton with plans to expand to other chains and asset types. This rollout adds to growing institutional use of Canton for tokenized funds, collateral markets, settlement infrastructure and bank-issued deposit tokens.

A Buenos Aires court has ordered a nationwide block on prediction market platform Polymarket in Argentina, citing unlicensed gambling activity and weak user controls. Judge Susana Parada instructed telecom providers, as well as Google and Apple, to restrict access to the website and app after an investigation found crypto- and card-based betting without proper identity or age checks. The case followed a complaint from local lottery authorities and coincided with scrutiny over Polymarket activity around the release of February inflation data.